Appalachian History

Moses Cone learned men. He learned how to win them.

Moses Cone saw that southern mills received too little because they depended chiefly on selling yarns and cheaper fabrics.

It seemed to him that the very image of his mother as she appeared 20 years ago lived & glowed in the face & features of the strange woman.

Harrison Construction Company of Pittsburgh won the contract for the nation’s heaviest airport grading job in October 1944, in Charleston, WV.

Everyone in the headquarters seemed to pity me. East Tennessee District was considered the ‘pits’ of the mission.

“There’d be a group of men working together, and they’d ask if my dad could sing and if they could sing he’d learn it from them.”